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Thursday, July 28, 2011

SALE!

Our sale happens tomorrow!! We excitedly said 20% off everything - which with our prices means things will be dirt cheap! Hoping to clear the rails of things which have lurked about a while so that we can fill them up again with new finds! (Lots from Malawi which dear Yites is ironing as we speak - amazing how a good pressing revitalises a garment. Am thinking of keeping lots more for myself now that they are so spruced up!)
I love to think of the history of the clothes we sell - how they have been discarded and have travelled and been rediscovered and loved and rehung in Rummage - ready for a whole new life, instead of rotting away in a landfill in Europe or the States.
You see - by shopping at Rummage, you are a part of that whole beautiful recycling process - and can look jolly stylish doing it!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Friday in the Shop

Friday in the shop was a happy day. Belinda began it by putting the cane chair in the sun outside and stylishly sat in her turquise sunnies doing a bit of her daughter's weaving - very chic: home crafts ARE chic these days you know!


Then our lovely loyal and equally chic friend Simona brought in her grandmother's original 60's Pucci frock (which she'd worn to Simona's mother's wedding). We hung it on our door and oohed and ahhed - it is such an object of beauty and 50 years later it is still so stylish you could wear it anywhere.
Here it is:

Gorgeous, hey? Sadly it is an heirloom and not for sale!

My dear dad hung up our open sign and it seems to be working - today is Saturday and it is blowing a HOWLING MAD gale outside - too windy to hang anything up at all - but still some dear and hardy customers popped in to shop - thanks honeys!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Back from Aahfricah bearing treasures!

I shall paste a little excerpt here from the emails I regale friends with when I am on my travels - so you can feel the thrill of the hunt for gorgeous garments in dusty piles under baobab trees...
"Stopped off at the village of Makawa for the market
under the big tree. Obviously this is the only reason I piggy backed
onto the shopping trip! This is usually a fantastic market, but what
with all our Mangochi errands, I made it there a bit too late and it
was packed to the gills with local shoppers and I couldn't elbow my
way into the cheap piles. But managed nevertheless to spend a happy
hour there finding a fab fake fur cerise jacket and a red Levi jacket
and various other little tidbits. So not entirely a waste of a day but
rather tiring. And it all ended badly, because, though I should have
known better, I ate some dodgy roadside slap chips for lunch out of
desperation - it's that or skewered mice for padkos in these parts,
well for the purposes of a good tale that is! The consequences were
predictable. I did suffer." Yes - all for a good garment!
"Had a fabulous Tuesday as I spent the morning lying in the hammock
reading an old Ken Follet page turner to recover from the
afarementioned ill-effects. Then ate a light lunch and gathered my
wits and chitenje bags about my person and headed off to the Monkey
Bay market for the afternoon - early this time. And that was time
well-spent! The cheap piles were accessible this time and I went
through them speedily and greedily and filled two loads of chitenje
bags with treasures. The best pile was the Victoria's Secret silk
slips and camis - oh what a joy! Will be keeping those that fit for
myself I fear. Have become a sleepwear snob as a result of the Monkey
Bay market and now only wear bias cut silk slips (which have cost me
less than R5 each). I am now a label and fabric snob but only if I can
find them cheaper than a loaf of bread."
Main road, Chembe Village

Laundry lady, Mabel, taking a break amongst the pattern overload.

The spoils all washed and folded and ready to come home to Rummage.